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Ryokan

Summary: Taigu Ryokan (1758-1831) remains one of the most popular figures in Japanese Buddhist history. Despite his religious and artistic sophistication (he excelled in scriptural studies, in calligraphy, and in poetry), Ryokan referred to himself as "Great Fool," refusing to place himself within any established religious institution. In contrast to Zen masters of his time who presided over large...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Hawaiʻi Press 1996

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Simmons, Sylvie.

Summary: Exploring the many facets of Cohen's life, an intimate portrait of the influential songwriter draws upon his private archives and interviews with many of his closest associates, colleagues, and other artists whose work he has inspired.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COHEN, LEONARD SIM

Wyllie, James

Summary: "Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in Hitler's inner circle. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann-names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse and Gerda... These are the women behind the infamous men-complex...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.086 WYL

Sylvan, Lu

Summary: "Learn about Putin's early life, how he became one of Russia's strongest presidents, and what has made him so controversial in current politics."--Publisher's website.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2015

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB PUTIN SYL

Manassah, Sallie M. (Sallie Mossman)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Image Adv., Ltd. 1986

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.427 MAN

Rogak, Lisa

Summary: Shel Silverstein's drawings and comic poems are bedtime staples of millions of children, and biographer Rogak tells the story of a life as antic and adventurous as any of his creations. A man with an incurable case of wanderlust, Shel kept homes on both coasts and many places in between--and enjoyed regular stays in the Playboy Mansion. Everywhere he went he charmed neighbors, made countless...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SILVERSTEIN, SHEL ROG

Rogak, Lisa

Summary: "A biography of Jeopardy host Alex Trebek"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TREBEK, ALEX ROG

Rogak, Lisa

Summary: "The first biography of the most popular anchor in cable news. Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that's novel in today's America: she uses her brain. In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity's ratings thanks to her deeply researched reports. And in our highly polarized world, Maddow amiably engages the staunchest conservatives, while never...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MADDOW, RACHEL ROG

Rosas, Julio

Summary: "In the summer of 2020, America was under siege by radical ANTIFA actors across the country. But if you were only reading mainstream headlines, you probably have no idea just how bad it really was. As homes and businesses were being burned to the ground and livelihoods were being destroyed, corporate media engaged in a full-scale attempt to gaslight the American people, pushing Orwellian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DW Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult Rosas

Nasar, Sylvia.

Summary: The true story of John Nash, the math genius who was a legend by age thirty when he slipped into madness; through the selflessness of a beautiful woman and the loyalty of the mathematics community he emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel Prize; now a major motion picture--Cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NASH, JOHN NAS

Farrow, Ronan

Summary: In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.4 FAR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.4 FAR

Rogak, Lisa

Contents: Apt pupil -- Head down -- The gunslinger -- Desperation -- Riding the bullet -- The running man -- Different seasons -- Maximum overdrive -- The long walk -- It grows on you -- The golden years -- Misery -- Sometimes they come back -- The end of the whole mess.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio King

Weintraub, Aileen

Summary: "Meet 50 super-inspiring kids! It's never too early--and you're never too young-- to make a difference in the world! The amazing musicians, writers, scientists, athletes, activists, and other fascinating kids in this book accomplished great feats by the age of eighteen. They impacted people's lives by coming up with new inventions, making art and music, competing in sports, and speaking out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WEI

Rogal, William W.

Summary: "Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 soldiers in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Co. 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ROGAL, WILLIAM W

Royal, Sarah

Summary: An intimate and deeply original exploration of the life and work of the television pioneer, the First Lady of Comedy, Lucille Bal--A.K.A. Lucy. With stories illuminating the many different facets of the woman, [this book] details how Ball transformed the face of comedy and the entertainment industry. -- adapted from back cover

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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALL, LUCILLE ROY

Chick, Stevie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 CHI

Morris, Sylvia Jukes.

Summary: Born illegitimate on New York's Upper West Side, with nothing to recommend her but blonde good looks and a ferocious intelligence, she used sex, street smarts, acid humor, and money to plot a career more improbable than anything in her own fiction and drama. At ten, Clare Boothe understudied Mary Pickford on Broadway. At twenty, she was both a suffragette and a siren to well-placed men on both...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUC

Brooks, Rosa

Summary: "A radical inside examination of policing in modern America, from a Georgetown University law professor turned reserve police officer"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 BRO

Roman, Carole P.

Summary: "From spy schools and ciphers to sneaky tools and secret armies, this guide takes you on a declassified tour of the undercover operations that helped decide the outcome of World War II. There's also more than a dozen short 'spy-ographies' that cover some of the most famous (and infamous!) agents who were active during the war." -- Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2019

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT History Roman

Parks, Rosa

Summary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was not trying to start a movement. She was simply tired of social injustice and did not think a woman should be forced to stand so that a man could sit down. Yet her simple act of courage set in motion a chain of events that changed forever the landscape of American race relations. Now, forty...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Pub. House 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.092 PAR

De la Rosa, Jeff

Summary: "A volume explaining engineer Masahiro Ono's plan to create a space probe that will be able to hitch itself to an asteroid as the asteroid is traveling through our galaxy"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.43 DE L

Crouch, Tom D.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2003

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.13 CRO

De la Rosa, Jeff

Summary: "A volume explaining engineer William "Red" Whittaker's plan to develop robots designed to explore the unknown caves on the moon and Mars"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.43 DE L

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Summary: This first-ever history of the legendary bohemian bookstore in Paris interweaves essays and poetry from dozens of writers associated with the shop--Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone and Jeanette Winterson, among others--with hundreds of never-before-seen archival pieces, including photographs of James Baldwin, William Burroughs and Langston Hughes, plus a foreword by the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shakespeare and Company 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381 SHA

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